No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.